The show opens with Luis (Benito Martinez) talking about Teo to what appears to be an investigator. The man gives him a huge photo album full of files on dead migrant workers. Teo was pulled from the river and has been cremated. The guy tells Luis he can have the ashes if he wants them.
A badly beaten Coy (Connor Jessup) goes to someone at the farm and asks how much he owes in order to leave. The guy tells him over $300. When Coy asks how is he supposed to pay off the debt, the guy tells him to work harder and work faster. Coy calls his brother to ask for money, but the brother doesn’t want to help him anymore.
Shae (Ana Mulvoy Ten) tells Kimara (Regina King) she wants to have an abortion. She also lets her know she has had one previously while living in DC. Kimara lets her know that in NC minors have to have parental consent to have an abortion, or they will need to go before a judge to receive court ordered approval. Shae is confused by the information but Kimara lets her know that it is the law.
Kimara goes back to the fertility clinic to discuss another treatment. Things are really adding up and there is no guarantee that with a new more expensive plan that she will get a refund if it doesn’t work.
Shae is talking to one of the males from the shelter. He tells her that he saw her steal the phone. The two talk briefly before he asks to see the device that Kimara gave her. She shows him the device but when he suggests they go take some pictures she shuts down and says no.
Shae and Kimara meet with a court officer to talk about getting a waiver for the abortion. Her request is denied and she is told she will need to get a waiver from her parents. Shae asks if there is any other option and is told that if she can prove that going to her parents to get consent will cause her harm, the courts may give the waiver. However, she can’t be more than 20 weeks pregnant.
Shae has an ultra sound and she is 14 weeks. Kimara becomes emotional when she hears the baby’s heartbeat.
JD (Tim DeKay) is crying on Jeanette’s (Felicity Huffman) shoulder. He said he went to see his dad but he wasn’t allowed to visit because Laurie Ann (Cherry Jones) told the facility not to allow him in. He pleads with her to talk to Laurie Ann and Carson (Dallas Roberts).
Jeanette meets with Laurie Ann and Carson to plead JD’s case. Laurie Ann says he showed up at the hospital with liquor on his breath. She also confronts Jeanette for using the family’s money to make a donation to the organization fighting for the migrant workers. It turns out Carson placed a stop payment on the check.
Luis calls home but he can’t bring himself to say that Teo has been killed. Instead he lies and says that he is working on a farm and that everyone liked him. The following day he gets a gun.
Coy is back in the fields and he passes out again. Isaac (Richard Cabral) takes him to a bootleg doctor who gives him some pills and says he’s okay. The visit costs $35, which will be added to the $300 plus he already owes. Diego (Clayton Cardenas) is there also and tells the doctor to give him extra pills. Alone, Isaac says he remembers when Coy laughed at him when he first met him on the street and suggested he come pick tomatoes.
Later that night Luis goes to Coy and asks him to text Isaac and have him come to where Coy is staying. Luis asks if he has family and tells him there is nothing keeping him at the farm and encourages him to leave.
When Isaac arrives, Luis asks him to tell him about Teo. Isaac says he didn’t do anything to Teo, he did it to himself. While he’s talking we get flashback scenes of the altercation between Isaac and Teo. Luis then shoots Isaac multiple times killing him.
At the same time Coy takes all of the pills and OD’s on the side of the road, but the paramedics arrive and give him Narcan. They assure him that everything will be okay and they are going to get him to the hospital.
Luis tosses the gun into the lake where Isaac drowned Teo, and then calls his wife to let her know he is on his way home.
The show is introducing new players.
At the airport a Haitian woman, Gabrielle Durand (Mickaëlle X. Bizet) is entering the United States and the process is a little complicated. She has come into the country to work for Claire (Lili Taylor) and Nicholas (Timothy Hutton) Coates as a nanny.
Nicholas runs a furniture manufacturing business. He is meeting with a buyer and the man is upset that the quality of the pieces has diminished. The stitching is off and the chair was made with plywood. Nicholas is facing a similar dilemma as the Hesby’s. He has to figure out a way to cut costs but maintain the same quality of his product.
Nicholas and his wife go to dinner and he is unhappy that she hired a nanny who only speaks French. Later we see the nanny come in to check on Claire but she orders her back into her bedroom. It is evident that their marriage is strained in more ways than one and will be interesting to see how their storyline plays into the human trafficking and servitude topics.
This was a great episode but I am hoping we haven’t seen the last of Luis, I really need him to be a part of bringing down the Hesby family.
NOTE: In my previous recaps I indicated that Laurie Ann was Carson’s mother and JD was a cousin. It turns out they are all siblings. Also, I didn’t realize that Diego and Isaac are brothers, which explains why Diego talked so much trash to him, but never did anything. Last, I thought it was a phone that Kimara gave to Shae, but it appears to be a camera of some kind…or not.
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Love & Blessings,
Tracy
Tracy L. Darity is the author of three novels, He Loves Me He Loves Me Not!, Love...Like Snow in Florida on a Hot Summer Day, and The Red Bear Society. Available in print and e-book. To learn more, visit www.TracyLDarity.com or Amazon.com
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